A Waukegan District 60 employee arrested last month in the sexual abuse of a teenage girl visited 11 schools since October 2017, despite an earlier district statement that categorically said as an administrative office employee he had “no contact with students,” according to a district statement and employee records.

Gabriel Valadez, 26, was arrested Feb. 19 at Waukegan District 60’s administrative offices with grooming and sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, according to Chicago police.

The 16,275-student district notified parents and posted on its website Thursday that Valadez had “limited access” to the schools.

The statement comes after the News-Sun requested records that showed the employee’s school access records and inquired about the disparity between them and the earlier district statement.

“During the 18 months of his employment here, he worked exclusively at Lincoln Center administrative offices,” according to the district statement. “However, on a few occasions, the employee went to school buildings for a limited period of time either as part of his job duties, or after regular school hours when students were dismissed for the day.”

Valadez went to Waukegan High School’s Washington campus 12 times after school hours, 11 of them over a two-month stretch, according to his building access log.

He also visited the Brookside campus once after school hours in December, and Oakdale Elementary School one morning in January, according to the log. Over a two-day period in early February, he went to nine schools in rapid succession.

District spokesman Nick Alajakis said Valadez had been at Washington campus to use a workout space in the basement that staff can use when it’s not being used by students and the quick visits in February were related to a project he was assisting with, dropping off and picking up paperwork.

The district had previously said because Valadez was never assigned to work in the schools, “he had no contact with students.” It also said it had no reason to believe the charges were related to Valadez’s work at Waukegan District 60.

The district has since reached out to the Chicago Police Department, which confirmed the allegations did not involve Waukegan students, Alajakis said.

Court records show that the abuse allegedly took place online and at Jungman Elementary School in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood.

Valadez worked at Jungman as a special education classroom aide from January 2016 until he was hired by Waukegan in August 2017, according to his application with Waukegan District 60.

Waukegan District 60 has not received any formal complaints from parents, students or staff regarding Valadez, according to its statement Thursday.